Halloween Games for Kids

Halloween Games for Kids

Mummy Wrap

This is one of my kids favorite games for a school party! Divide the kids into smaller groups. One kid in each group is the mummy and the others wrap the mummy with toilet paper. You can have a winner for the best mummy or a race for the fastest mummy wrapped, or no winner at all.
To avoid problems with "I want to be the mummy!" you can divide the groups and have each member of the group draw an assignment out of a pumpkin for their "job". You need at least one mummy per group and you could assign one kid to wrap the legs, arms, etc.. or just let them go.
Make sure to set some ground rules. You might want to tell them NOT to wrap the head or face and throwing the rolls of toilet paper around the room probably is not a good idea! (The teacher will appreciate this rule.) You could even have them wrap the teacher or room parents.

Monster Freeze Dance

Play Halloween music and have the kids dance like monsters! Monster Mash is a good song for this game.
When the music stops the kids freeze in their monster positions.
The first kid to move gets to stop the music.
This is a good game for the end of the party since you can make it last as long you want.

Mad Scientist Laboratory

Place each in a separate jar and label with body part name:

Item	Body Part
peeled grapes	eyeballs
cooked spaghetti:	intestines
Jello	liver
rubber glove filled with water and frozen	dead man's hand
wet tea bags	hearts
cooked cauliflower	brain
piece of hot dog:	nose
pieces of chalk	teeth
carrot	finger
nut shells	toenails
fur	hair

To make spaghetti; cook, rinse under cold water, drain, when cold, mix in one or two tablespoons of vegetable oil, until good and slimy, store in plastic bag in refrigerator.
Game Setting: a dim room works best or use blind fold, tell kids they are in the laboratory of a mad scientist and that they get to feel the exhibits in the room.
Have each kid feel and guess what they really are feeling.
A Halloween sound effect tape is good background music for this game.

Halloween Pictionary

Plastic Pumpkin (or other container)
Slips of paper with one Halloween word on each slip (tombstone, vampire, bat, spooky, spider, mummy, and others)
Chalk board
Divide into two teams. One player from the first team starts by picking a slip of paper from the pumpkin. They use the chalkboard to draw items related to the word. They can not write the word. Their team tries to guess the word. Set a 2 minute time limit. The other team goes next. Keep rotating until everyone has a chance to draw. You can keep score and have one team win, or just play for the fun of it.

Musical Tombstones

This works like musical chairs.
A Halloween music tape works best.
To make the chairs look like tombstones, take a paper grocery bag and decorate with an epitaph. Use a black magic marker and make one with each kids name. Something like "Here Lies Matt" or "R.I.P. Steven", embellish with a ghost or skull. If the chairs are small, you might need to cut off some of the bottom of the grocery bag before you start so they will fit nicely over the chairs.

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